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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






2. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






3. A three-line stanza.






4. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






5. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






6. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






7. The dictionary meaning of a word.






8. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






9. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






10. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.


11. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






12. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






13. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






14. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






15. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






16. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






17. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






18. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






19. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






20. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






21. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






22. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






23. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






24. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






25. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






26. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






27. The person who 'tells' the story.






28. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






29. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






30. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






31. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






32. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






33. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






34. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






35. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






36. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






37. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






38. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






39. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






40. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






41. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






42. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






43. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






44. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






45. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






46. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






47. The time and place of a story or play.






48. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






49. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






50. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.